Bluebird Movement demonstrations have continued to take place outside of the legislature. Even if demonstrations are not as large as in May and June, in July, this has occurred on several occasions...
The KMT and TPP likely plan to use their newly acquired legislative powers going forward to go after political opponents, with an investigative committee set up to investigate the approval of Mirror TV for broadcast. In particular, the pan-Blue camp has long accused the National Communications Commission of exercising undue influence in allowing Mirror TV to obtain a broadcast license. Mirror TV is the first television network approved for broadcast in a decade and it is generally seen as more pan-Green in its political leanings...
Legal contention continues over Chinese streaming provider iQiyi, with the Taiwan High Court ruling against a lower court earlier this week to find three Taiwanese citizens guilty of violating the Act Governing Relations Between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area...
It may not be surprising to observe the uptick in Chinese disinformation ahead of the nine-in-one elections scheduled to take place in late November. Nevertheless, what is important to note is to what extent that disinformation is also spread by pan-Blue domestic outlets...
UMC founder and former chair Robert Tsao has gotten into an unusual dispute with pan-Blue news network CtiTV regarding recent plans by Tsao to donate 1 billion NT to efforts to strengthen civil defense in Taiwan...
Mirror Media's efforts to establish a television network have faced continual issues in the past months. Mirror Media currently hopes to establish a television network called Mirror News...
The National Communications Commission overruled efforts by CtiTV earlier this week to change the broadcast license of one of its news networks to be allowed to broadcast political and news programs on the Cti Variety channel...
Claims by the KMT that the National Communications Council intends to censor the Taiwanese Internet through a new draft bill aimed at regulating OTT providers are ironic...
After weeks of speculation, the National Communication Commission ruled today that it would not be renewing the license of television broadcaster CtiTV. One expects the ruling to lead to resistance from the KMT, as well as accusations against the Tsai administration that it is violating freedoms of press in Taiwan from the pan-Blue camp...
With hearings held by the National Communications Commission coming up next week regarding television outlet CtiTV’s renewal of its operations license, the issue has become one with which the KMT has sought to attack the DPP. In particular, the KMT has framed the issue as the DPP seeking to shut down CtiTV, as a means of targeting political critics...
